Acanthinucella
{{Short description|Genus of gastropods}}
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| image = Acanthina punctulata.jpg
| image_caption = A hermit-crabbed shell of Acanthinucella punctulata
| taxon = Acanthinucella
| authority = Cooke, 1918{{No-gastropod-genus-ref}}
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Acanthinucella is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.{{WRMS species|403857|Acanthinucella Cooke, 1918||25 April 2010}}
Species
Species within the genus Acanthinucella include:
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Image | Scientific name | Distribution | |
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Acanthinucella paucilirata (Stearns, 1871){{WRMS species|404468|Acanthinucella paucilirata (Stearns, 1871) | 25 April 2010}} | Mexico | |
120px | Acanthinucella punctulata (Sowerby, 1835){{WRMS species|404474|Acanthinucella punctulata (Sowerby, 1835) | 25 April 2010}} | West Coast of North America, from Monterey, California, to northern Baja California, Mexico. |
120px | Acanthinucella spirata (Blainville, 1832){{WRMS species|404477|Acanthinucella spirata (Blainville, 1832) | 25 April 2010}} | West Coast aka the Pacific Ocean coast of North America. |